Agri-Business
Cornish mixed farm becomes latest to join Monitor Farm network
Cornish farmer Ashley Jones has been selected as one of the latest to join the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s...
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Rural Life
Nithsdale Monitor Farm opens its gates for Open Farm Sunday
The Marchant family, who run Clonhie Farm, the Nithsdale Monitor farm, near Thornhill, are looking forward to welcoming visitors for...
Sheep
Lamb losses a threat as warm weather causes Nematodirus and roundworm spike
Wet weather followed by a sudden increase in temperature is causing a high Nematodirus and roundworm risk on farms nationwide,...
Environment
Working for waders: Bringing wading birds back to Scottish farmland
Soil Association Scotland is inviting farmers and land managers to a free event at Threepwood Farm, Galashiels, on Thursday, June...
Rural Life
Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers, study suggests
Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who convert to farming work around 10 hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a...
Agri-Business
Business idea to help farmers move to organic wins investment for student
A business that provides a dedicated label of quality for farms in the process of becoming organic has won a...
Agri-Business
Galloway deer farmer granted Biosphere Certification
Eight Scottish businesses from a range of industries including food, tourism, forestry, horticulture and publishing have now been recognised for...
Arable
Snow sees corn planting behind…switch to soybeans on the way?
Just like St. Patrick’s Day marks the ideal spring barley sowing season here in the UK and Ireland, many US...
Machinery
McCormick tractor dealer appointed in Co. Antrim
McKeever Tractors has been appointed as a McCormick dealer for Co. Antrim. The dealership, based at Portglenone near Ballymena, will “draw...
Agri Politics
May departure: Farming's reaction to PM's resignation
The UK’s farming bodies have warned May’s resignation means yet more uncertainty and a return to the possibility of a...
Agri-Business
Theresa May to step down as Conservative Party leader
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May has today, Friday, May 24, announced that she will resign from her role as...
Machinery
Latest Case IH tractor came in February, but has the ‘name’ vanished?
According to Dutch publication Mechaman.nl, Case IH is faced with the prospect of having to rename its recently launched Versum CVXDrive...
Agri-Business
10 new varieties added to 2019 Recommended Grass and Clover Lists
Eight new varieties of ryegrass and one red and one white clover have been added to the 2019-2020 Recommended Grass...
Agri-Business
Welsh pig industry heading towards more but smaller herds
Wales’ pig industry is moving towards a larger number of smaller herds, according to an industry update. Hybu Cig Cymru...
Machinery
Pair of ‘unmanned’ Valtras on test at active airport
Robotic vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers are already here, but can the same technology be applied to a 7t machine that...
Rural Life
Firefighters say Cambridgeshire shed fire was started deliberately
Firefighters have said a blaze which destroyed an estimated 100t of straw and machinery in Cambridgeshire was started deliberately. It...
Agri-Business
Union calls for 'emergency measures' to tackle Wales' agricultural plastic backlog
The Farmers’ Union of Wales says emergency measures are needed to help farmers recycle the thousands of tonnes of bale...
Machinery
50 years of JCB loaders; but which was the ‘must-have’ silage machine?
JCB is celebrating 50 years of wheeled loading shovel manufacture. The company originally entered the wheeled loader market with the...
